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LETTER FROM JOHN THOMPSON.

MR. STILL:—­You will oblige me much Iff
you will Direct this Letter to Vergenia for me to
my Mother & iff it well sute you Beg her in my Letter
to Direct hers to you & you Can send it to me iff it
sute your Convenience. I am one of your Chattle.

LETTER FROM JOHN THOMPSON, A FUGITIVE, TO HIS MOTHER.

MY DEAR MOTHER:—­I have imbrace
an opportunity of writing you these few lines
(hoping) that they may fine you as they Leave me quite
well I will now inform you how I am geting I am now
a free man Living By the sweet of my own Brow
not serving a nother man & giving him all I Earn
But what I make is mine and iff one Plase do not
sute me I am at Liberty to Leave and go some where
elce & can ashore you I think highly of Freedom
and would not exchange it for nothing that is
offered me for it I am waiting in a Hotel I supose
you Remember when I was in Jail I told you the
time would Be Better and you see that the time has
come when I Leave you my heart was so full & yours
But I new their was a Better Day a head, & I have
Live to see it. I hird when I was on the
Underground R. Road that the Hounds was on my Track
but it was no go I new I was too far out of their
Reach where they would never smell my track when
I Leave you I was carred to Richmond & sold &
From their I was taken to North Carolina & sold
& I Ran a way & went Back to Virginna Between Richmond
& home & their I was caught & Put in Jail & their
I Remain till the oner come for me then I was
taken & carred Back to Richmond then I was sold
to the man who I now Leave he is nothing But a But
of a Feller Remember me to your Husband & all in quirin
Friends & say to Miss Rosa that I am as Free as
she is & more happier I no I am getting $12 per
month for what Little work I am Doing I hope to
here from you a gain I your Son & ever By

JOHN THOMPSON.

LETTER FROM “WM. PENN” (OF THE BAR).

WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 9th, 1856.

DEAR SIR:—­I was unavoidably prevented yesterday,
from replying to yours of 6th instant, and although
I have made inquiries, I am unable to-day,
to answer your questions satisfactorily. Although
I know some of the residents of Loudon county, and
have often visited there, still I have not practiced
much in the Courts of that county. There are several
of my acquaintances here, who have lived in that county,
and possibly, through my assistance, your commissions
might be executed. If a better way shall not
suggest itself to you, and you see fit to give me the
facts in the case, I can better judge of my
ability to help you; but I know not the man resident